Please see this archived thread for a very similar question on what tasks really are: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/hadoop-general/201011.mbox/%[email protected]%3E
Right now, they're just a cap number for parallelization, hand-configured and irrespective of the machine's capabilities. However, a Scheduler may take machine's states into account while assigning tasks to one. On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 7:22 PM, bikash sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > How is task slot in Hadoop defined with respect to scheduling a map/reduce > task on such slots available on TaskTrackers? > > Thanks, > Bikash > -- Harsh J www.harshj.com
